Entries fromSeptember 2007

When you are growing your business or blog, a link from a popular blog can help a great deal. It will bring you interested visitors and perhaps some secondary links or traffic from other bloggers who follow the popular blog.

The question begs to be asked: Just how do you get a mention and link from these influential bloggers?

It’s really not difficult. You’ll only have to pitch your business or website by sending them an email. After all, bloggers can only write about something when they are aware that it exists, wouldn’t you agree?

Link baits can come in all sorts of flavors and styles. Upon completion of a link bait, you usually have two main options:

You can either put the link bait on a page whereby it is displayed to all visitors or place it on a secondary page that is only visible or available to visitors coming directly from social media sites.

Where you choose to place your link bait matters. Do you want your regular site visitors or readers to see it among other content? Or would you prefer to only get the attention of a specific social media audience?

Markus Frind is a Canadian entrepreneur who owns PlentyofFish.com, the world’s largest online dating website. According to reports in 2006, he earned around $10,000 a day through Adsense’s contextual advertising program.

According to a recent article [1], Plenty of Fish now receives 45 million visitors along with 1.1 billion pageviews every month.

His annual income from PlentyofFish.com alone is currently $5 to $10 million a year.

What is fascinating is that Markus Frind is a one-man show. He virtually ran Plenty of Fish by himself, along with help from his girlfriend and other voluntary moderators.

Let’s talk about your life goals and the things you want to accomplish in your life. Can they be realistically achieved? Are you taking the appropriate steps to consummate them?

We’re all trying to make money online or offline because it will give us the financial freedom to do whatever we want; to experiment with hobbies, alternative career options or childhood aspirations.

Jim Westergren recently wrote an article explaining how he had gradually moved away from the webmaster/seo world into the profession of a full time writer.

Some people I know are wary of internet marketers, considering them to be snake oil salesmen who are always looking to scam them out of some money by selling them products they don’t need.

Not all are equally suspicious: apparently their long sales letters with bold promises still do work to pull in sales and subscribers.

These gurus usually offer their own informational products, along with in opt-in mailing list, which allows them to prime an audience to support their future ventures, products or affiliate sales. They are also skilled in branding themselves as an expert through the recommendations of others.

This week was a very busy week for me and I only wrote three posts so far, which is a record low, ever since I started blogging on Dosh Dosh. While its been a little quiet over here, other bloggers have written some excellent articles on various topics.

Here’s a collection of them. Note that some of them you might have first seen on Sphinn, the social news/voting website for SEOs, marketers and bloggers.

While some of these links may not be directly related to making money, they will help you to manage your websites while helping you get links, traffic and attention.

Just exactly how do you actually become a top StumbleUpon user? Instead of writing out another generic how-to post which struggles to crack StumbleUpon’s algorithm, let’s take a step back to see if all this focus on being a top stumbler really matters in the first place.

Many people have already written in detail about the steps needed to build a power StumbleUpon profile and the ways to get on StumbleUpon’s list of the top stumblers.

Most of these marketing-oriented articles focus primarily on the building a strong StumbleUpon account as a means to get more traffic for one’s specific websites.

As you might already know, link baits are content, tools or webpages specifically created to pull in links and traffic from other websites and popular social media websites like Digg or Reddit.

Creating an effective link bait can take a lot of time and effort and I think initial control over the distribution process is very important. You want someone who has influence or connections to submit or promote your link bait to the social community you are targeting.